 | John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - Liczba stron: 150
...liberties, from a long line of Ancestors." " A spirit of Innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...of England well know, that the idea of Inheritance is a sure principle of Conservation, and a sure principle of Transmission, without at all excluding... | |
 | John Centlivres Chase - 1843 - Liczba stron: 376
...specially belonging to the people, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...improvement, It leaves acquisition free, but it secures all it acquires. Such is the language of Burke, who, speaking of two truly great lawyers Coke and Blackstone,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - Liczba stron: 372
...seemed always to mean more than he said. 2 A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - Liczba stron: 490
...wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look 1 W. and M. c backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 566
...wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold's - 1847 - Liczba stron: 586
...wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1847 - Liczba stron: 584
...wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - Liczba stron: 1502
...i.. the school of genius. — GIBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish r & Brothers — BUKKI;. 3. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 746
...who, if famed for any one property especially, it was that of virtue and honesty combined. Burke says, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." And let me ask, sir, what are our administrators doing for posterity ? If we may judge from the concessions... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 532
...wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...It leaves acquisition free, but it secures what it has acquired." Without permanence, the institutions of a country would be destitute of that weight... | |
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. 
